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Upon arriving
at Dr. Ahmad Khan's laboratory, I can tell from the boisterous way he says
salaam that it is not going to be a typical interview. Dr. Khan, to say
the least, is glowingly euphoric, and he seems to be consciously trying
to lower the level of excitement in his voice. By all accounts this is
the same Dr. Khan known to his geneticist colleagues as soft-spoken and
shy- given to a calm, straight-faced demeanor. As he offers me some piping
hot chai (tea), and bades me strenuously with his hands to sit within
his office chambers, I begin to wonder if in fact I had heard correctly
what he, to my utter consternation, had thought brought me to see him.
Dr. Khan begins to tell me that he had not only found evidence of the Holy
Qur'an's authorship, but, in fact, the authorship of mankind.

Little did
I know before walking into the sleek mirrored-face "GenLab"on the campus
of the University of New Mexico, that on the fifth floor I would
find a scientist, who by the sheer scope of his findings may very well
end up as familiar a name as a Galileo, Newton, or Einstein. I thought
quite simply that I was going to be interviewing Dr. Khan about his book
in development, which I was told previously was to be a synthesis of genetics
and Islam. I figure, hey, a little about the morality of cloning here,
another little bit about genetic engineering there, and badaboom badabang
- a simple little volume which puts genetics in its proper perspective.

"Nehi! Subhan
Allah! Nehi!" He laughs, the largest conceivable grin on his face,
as he brushes aside a few of the sundry piles of papers clogging his pigsty
of a desk. I cast a glance at the wall behind his desk, bare save for a
framed ayat-ul-kursi and a family portrait of his former beardless self
along with his wife Nur, and their two small children. I don't find any
evidence of the ostentation one might expect from some one who graduated
summa
cum laude from Duke University. I distinctly get the impression that
despite his status as a young (31 years of age) and up and coming geneticist,
that his love remains solely for Allah and his research. Diplomas and awards
are nothing more than clumps of paper to him.

My list
of questions made irrelevant by Dr. Khan's revelation, I begin to try to
ascertain what exactly he had discovered and how, asking him just to divulge
a little of his research and how he had come about it.

"For a few
years now I have mused during my Ph.D. training that there was the possibility
for information other than that for the construction of polypeptides to
be encoded by individual codons or nucleotides of DNA. But it was only
after a Jum'ah khutbah where I heard the Imam mention a verse in the Holy
Qur'an where I put two and two together."

Ahmad, as I
now call him, rises up from his seat and reaches to the top of the massive
bookshelf to the left of his desk, grasping hold of the Qur'an, by its
looks very worn. An interesting combination I think to myself- a lab coat
and a white kufi. But I have little more time for such musings on the fashions
of the day, as he kisses the Qur'an and opens it to his selected verses.

"Audhu billahi
min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem. Bismillah Ir-Rahman Ir-Raheem. Sanureehim ayatinaa
filafaaqi wafi anfusihim Hatta yatabayyana lahum annahu ul-Haqq, awalam
yakfi birabbika annahu 'ala kulli shayiin shaheedoon." He pauses for
a breath, and his index finger moves over to the English text: "Soon
will We show them Our Signs in the furthest regions of the earth, and in
their own souls, until it becomes manifest to them that this is the Truth.
Is it not enough that your Lord witnesses all things?"

"Which Sura
is that?"

"It is from
the forty-first Sura, Fussilat, the fifty-third ayat."

"Shukriyya,
go on..."

"You may
have heard of a study by a non-Muslim scientist by the name of Keith Moore?"

"Yes, but
if you could refresh my memory..."

"Quite simply
Keith Moore is the world authority on embryology, and after having read
the Holy Qur'an he came to see that there was a remarkable correspondence
of the Qur'an's description of embryos with the descriptions of modern
science. So we can see from this that indeed the Holy Qur'an has shown
us a sign in our own souls, our own selves, by relating information that
due to its microscopic nature could not have been known fourteen hundred
years ago."

"What
I've come to realize is that the Holy Qur'an has many levels of meaning,
some of which are known only to Allah subhana wa t'ala himself.

"But what
I recognized is that if we look at the Arabic, the ayat in question uses
the same word for Qur'anic verses- 'ayaat.' And it says as you read along,
that those same verses are 'fi anfusihim'- are in themselves- in the human
beings. Coming as I do from the specialty of genetics, I realized that
the verses of the Qur'an could indeed be within each human being-coded
within our DNA."

"But
aren't you just speculating that the meaning of the ayat is that ayaat
from the Qur'an appear in some form or another within the genome?"

"Yes, at
first....At first it was speculation, but then I began to piece together
more indications that there was a possibility that verses of the Holy Qur'an
could be a part of the genome. What you must realize is that much of the
DNA in our genome doesn't code for the production of proteins at all. The
non-coding regions- introns- are often called junk DNA. Mashaa Allah. As
it turns out, it is the farthest possible thing from junk, it is the words
of our Creator, a great sign that it was Allah who gave us the breath of
life."

"So
how did you test your hypothesis, and who else have you consulted?"

"GenLab
had a government grant to study the genetic roots of intelligence, and
at the time this idea struck me, we were focusing on mapping the central
region of chromosome 19. I talked with my younger brother, 'Imran, who
is a systems analyst, and consulted with him about developing a way to
see if any Qur'anic ayat could be found within the intron regions of chromosome
19 that had been mapped."

"It
was quite a project, because we had to figure out what Arabic letter each
different possible codon stood for, by iterating each possible coding system
through the introns and seeing if any of those combinations resulted in
ayaat from the Holy Qur'an."

"The
first ayat revealed to the Prophet Muhammad, Sal Allahu Alaihi wa Salaam!?"

"Yes,
I was just as astonished as you are now. But the thing is, with each ayat
we found, finding the next ayat came faster and faster, as we began to
compile the full coding system. After that it has been a breeze. Our only
trouble with finding more ayat has been that not enough of the genome has
been mapped by geneticists to be searched. So far we only have found 1/10
of the Qur'an."

"Although
we obviously want to make our findings known to the greater Muslim- greater
world in general, we are taking precautions to make sure our heads are
screwed on right...you can never be too careful. In the past few weeks
I've been talking with individual Muslim scientists, just so I could get
some feedback, and make sure that our findings are ready to be published
come next fall."

"But
I am confident that we've found a phenomenon of great interest, such that
I am willing to put my entire career on the line. I've revealed my findings
to my fellow geneticists here at GenLab, and believe me- this has been
the first time I've found Martin or Clive [two of his co-workers] even
willing to discuss religion or Islam. I've also written to two non-Muslim
skeptics inviting them to analyze my findings: Dan Larhammar of Uppsala
University in Sweden, and Aris Dreismann at the Technical University of
Berlin. I doubt they'll remain skeptical for long..."

"There
is such a tremendous amount of data that we're going to have to be analyzing
it over the next few months, but I hope to create both a book for popular
consumption as well as submit an abstract to Science very shortly."

"I'm
speechless! Subhan Allah! But can you show me some of the verses you've
found?"

Just
then I find out what some of the sheets of paper are on his desk. He hands
two sheets to me, one covered with four roman letters, T, C, G, and A,
sprawling across the sheet, separated in columns of three letters. The
other in Arabic script is clear as day- after many 'lam's, and a couple
of random 'ayn's and 'qafs' I see what looks like a sentence. I ask him
the meaning.

"From
Sura al baqarah, the sixth ayat. In English it says: 'As to those who reject
faith, it is the same to them whether you warn them or do not warn them;
they will not believe.'"

"The
other page is a listing of the actual sequence of nucleotides, of which
there are four types. Every three code for an Arabic letter." He pulls
out a laminated table, with Thymine, Adenine, Cytosine, and Guanine written
vertically for the first nucleotide, then horizontally across the top for
the second, and horizontally again for the third."

"Instead
of amino acids, as you can see from this table there are two codons for
every Arabic letter, as well as for the ta' marbuta and hamza. There is
also a code for the end of each ayat, just like there would be codons which
would stop gene transcription."

"Subhan
Allah. I just feel so blessed to find such a miracle at such a young age-
I can only marvel at what else we might find inshaa Allah, you know.. I
can only hope that within our lifetimes other Muslim scientists find out
the meaning of the other 'ayaat' in nature that Allah makes reference to."

"Would
you happen to have any last words for our readers?"

"I
just hope that after the publication of my book 'The Holy Qur'an and Genetics'
that Muslims begin to better understand how Allah has made Islam a complete
way of life. We cannot compartmentalize our religion, keeping Islam out
of our politics, education, arts, and sciences without grave detriment
to ourselves, and loss of the true meaning of the Final Revelation to the
Prophet Muhammad, upon whom be peace."

"I also
hope that non-Muslims see that there is no need for the controversies between
religion and science, although no doubt some of them will ignore the evidence
even if it is right before their very eyes." I take one last sip of my
chai, looking intently at Dr. Khan's dark brown eyes and olive complexion,
knowing full well, that inshaa Allah I am looking at the face of the Ummah's
future.

This
is to informs you that if you have received the above story, please do
NOT forward it because it is a HOAX! The great scientific value of the
Quran is great as it is so we don't need to spread lies to glorify the
Quran which is a book of TRUTH. If you would like equally scientific facts
about the Holy Quran please visit : "THE
TWIN SISTERS"